Marinated Mushrooms
Food · FoodDishVegetable0★Mushrooms left to sit in marinade. Adds +10% Defense for a period.
Marinated Mushrooms is 11th of 20 cooked dishes by hunger restored, at 60 against the 738 of Special Cake.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
It weighs almost nothing and stacks to 9,999, so there is no reason not to carry a full stack.
Marinated Mushrooms Crafting Recipe
Mushroom×1
Red BerriesCrafting it takes 3 materials across 2 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 2× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Marinated Mushrooms
If you would rather just buy it, the cheapest seller is Caravan Shop at 480 Gold, and 1 other shop stocks it too.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant | Caravan Shop | 480 Gold |
| Merchant | Dungeon Shop | 480 Gold |
Using Marinated Mushrooms Well
The "period of time" in the description is 600 seconds — a flat 10 minutes of +10% Defense, with no tick-down and no scaling by how hungry you were. Eat it at the tower door or on the way into a dungeon, not back at base, or a third of the timer is gone before anything hits you.
A Campfire cannot cook this. The earliest station that takes the recipe is the Cooking Pot, which sits at technology level 17 for 2 points and costs Ingot x15, Wooden Board x5 and Flame Organ x3 to build. Every later kitchen — Electric Kitchen at 41, Large-Scale Stone Oven at 49, Ancient Kitchen at 70 — makes it too, so there is no reason to unlock past the pot for this dish alone.
One Mushroom plus two Red Berries eaten raw come to 43 food and no sanity. Cooked they become 60 food and 7 sanity, so the pot roughly doubles the value of the cheapest forage loop in the game while adding the Defense buff on top.
The craft is 5,000 work per portion, ten times what Baked Mushroom asks for the same mushroom. Batch it — queue a stack in the pot with a Kindling Pal assigned and collect later, rather than cooking singles between fights.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Salad at 84 hunger restored; step down and it is Stir-Fried Vegetables at 54. How far apart those two sit tells you whether to spend now or keep what you have.
Other cooked dishs at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
